TARENTUM SILVER DIDRACHM – VARIETY WITH SILENUS MASK EX SALTON COLLECTION – CHOICE AU NGC GRADED GREEK COIN (Inv. 18492)

$1,350.00

CALABRIA. TARENTUM. Ca. 280-240 BC.
Silver didrachm (nomos), 6.33 g, 20 mm. Issue of magistrate Kynon.
Obv. Youthful rider right crowning horse, AP monogram in upper left field, KY/NΩN in right field, mask of Silenus below. Rev. TAPAΣ, dolphin rider left, holding cantharus, amphora and ΔI in left field.
Vlasto 860 (same obverse die); HN Italy 1031; HGC 1, 889.
Ex Salton Collection, likely acquired in the 1950s-1960s when Mr. Salton owned a numismatic firm in New York.
NGC graded CHOICE AU, Strike 5/5, Surface 2/5, “marks.”